On the other side of the debate, commentators think that Aristotle defends natural teleology against eliminativist opponents who maintain that there is nothing to explain the generation of living organisms because it is simply an accidental result of the movements of the elements.

This suggests, perhaps, that there is an intrinsic harmony between the intrinsic teleology of virtue-based ethics and the extrinsic teleology (conformity to an external object) of the great religious traditions.

Not surprisingly, given the diversity of these contributions, there is no clear reply to Warnke's attractively simple teleology, but arguably something more valuable: a recasting of Warnke's questions that betrays a transformation in the way that Renaissance art historians understand the notion of artistic identity, one that eschews the search for the origins of the modern.

10) Most importantly for our purposes at the the moment, it is also an argument which begs the question of the identities of the historical subjects of these actions by transposing them into the set of terms provided by Genovese's version of western Marxism--a teleology in which "African" forms of resistance are seen as "roadblocks" on the way to the elaboration of a properly revolutionary notion of a slave revolt, one, that is, which recognized "the individual" as the subject of history and the language of rights as the only acceptable idiom of revolution, a teleology, that is, which ultimately reproduces the idea of a liberal agent as the universal subject of history.

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